A SUSPECTED dangerous drug driver said to have crashed into a house and caused serious injury to passengers will next appear at crown court.

Todd Richardson, of Sapphire Crescent, Worcester, appeared before magistrates in Kidderminster on Monday for a string of driving and drugs offences following a city crash late last year.

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The 30-year-old is charged with three counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving after a BMW X6 crashed into a house in Bromwich Road, St John's, Worcester on December 19 last year.

Magistrates adjourned the case for a further hearing at Worcester Crown Court on August 30. Richardson was granted unconditional bail.

Richardson also faces the following charges, all of which relate to the incident on December 19 last year:

  • possession of a controlled drug of class A (cocaine)
  • driving with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit (the cocaine metabolite Benzolecgonine) in his blood (547 ug/L)
  • driving with a proportion of a specified controlled drug (cocaine) above the specified limit in blood (13ug/L reading)
  • driving with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit (Ketamine) in his blood (a reading of 23ug/L)
  • driving without insurance